Gourmet of Another World

Chapter 145: The Fat Person Eating a Chicken Drumstick and the Skinny Person with a Wok on His Back

Translator: OnGoingWhy Editor: Vermillion

As the dawn of the Spring Festival arrived, smoke rose from the chimneys of many households within the imperial city. The citizens who worked hard for the past year got up early and began preparing a sumptuous Spring Festival breakfast.

At one of the the imperial city’s gates, the guards on watch yawned and enviously watched as the scenery within the city gradually become livelier. Although it was the Spring Festival, the city guards were still alertly carrying out their duties. Even though the sect rebels were sabotaged by the old emperor, no one knew whether the cunning members of the sects would strike again.

As guards, protecting their country was their duty.

However, their minds were currently filled with warm beds, their pretty wives and their adorable children, oh and also the piping hot Spring Festival breakfast prepared by their wives.

Suddenly, the eyes of a languid guard who was indulging in a beautiful fantasy abruptly became focused and he was immediately alert as he looked into the distance with a grave expression on his face.

In a distance, two figures—one large and one small—were slowly heading toward the imperial city and the guards could feel an invisible sense of pressure coming from them, which caused the complexions on the guards’ faces to slightly change.

”Two Battle-King experts?” This city guard was appalled. For them, Battle-Kings were already illustrious figures.

”Crunch, crunch.”

The sound of teeth crushing bones distinctly sounded out and was even accompanied by the sound of chewing. The combination of the sounds sent chills up the spines of the two guards standing at the gate and caused goosebumps to rise all over their skins. They suddenly felt a sense of eeriness.

”Big bro, we’ve reached the imperial city,” an indistinct voice rang out. After the sentence was finished, the sound of bones being chewed sounded out once more.

”You damn fatty, could you not speak to me when you’re eating?!” The other voice seemed to be slightly annoyed and his tone was filled with revulsion.

”Crunch, crunch. Got it… Oh… Got it, I won’t do it again. Crunch, crunch.” An honest and foolish laughter accompanied by the sound of bones being chewed sounded out and was soon followed by the exasperated and frenzied grumbling of another person.

Within the field of vision of the two imperial city guards, the figures of the two gradually became clearer.

As they saw the two people, the pupils of the city guards shrunk at the same time.

One of them was tall and fat while the other was short and skinny. The tall one was extremely obese and his entire body was covered with chunks of flesh, so much so that his tiny eyes were almost hidden.

On the other hand, the short one was extremely thin. He had a protruding mouth with a sharp chin and looked rather… comical.

The fatty was wearing a large apron with a pocket sewn upon it. He reached his hand into the pocket and pulled out an overwhelmingly fragrant and glistening chicken drumstick before directly shoving the entire drumstick into his mouth. He did not even need to spit the bones out and swallowed the entire thing down after chewing a few times.

The short one was not normal either. He was not tall but was carrying a large black wok that was almost larger than him on his back and he looked as if he was a turtle carrying its shell.

”The two of you… Stop right there!” a guard imposingly said as he stopped them.

From a single glance, the guards could tell that the two of them were not normal. As city guards, it was their responsibility to stop and question them.

”Big bro, he’s stopping us… Crunch, crunch,” the fatty said as he pulled out another chicken drumstick from the front pocket of his apron, shoved it into his mouth and started chewed while sulkily looking at the shorty.

The shorty disdainfully gave the fatty a glance before he turned to the guard and said, ”Hey, friend. We’re chefs here to participate in this year’s Hundred Family Banquet. We’re from Qingyangzhen.[1]”

The guard was startled for a moment. He thought, ”So these two strange fellows are chefs… Do the chefs these days all behave so strangely? He’s even bringing his own wok to participate in the contest?”